For sale in CIS only! Interest in and consumption of wine have grown exponentially in recent years and there has been a corresponding increase in consumers' knowledge of wine, which in turn has generated discussions about the meaning and value of wi...

For sale in CIS only! The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial sprin...

For sale in CIS only! Berlin is much more than the former capital of Nazi Germany – it is often described today as innovative, fast-paced, avant-garde, rough, exciting, and even sexy. At the political and geographical centre of the Second World War...

For sale in CIS only! Sadler was the first Englishman to fly. I was the first Englishman to be diagnosed with both acute acrophobia (height anxiety) and bathmophobia (an irrational fear of stairs). This explains why I have never been a high-flyer, h...

For sale in CIS only! "Dear me! It is a strange world. Particularly the Indian division of it". In 1895/6 the sixty-year-old Mark Twain set off on a worldwide lecture tour to pay off his debts from a publishing company bankruptcy, notes from which a...

For sale in CIS only! With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten tr...

For sale in CIS only! In 1867 the "Daily Alta California" commissioned Mark Twain to cover the story of the world s first luxury cruise, a six-month round tour to the Holy Land from New York on board the Quaker City, an ex-Civil War Mississippi side...

For sale in CIS only! By tradition, Moscow is the easternmost bastion of western civilisation. Moscow has stood against invasion and war, pestilence and fire. It has been rejected by its own rulers, and its destruction has been planned by its dreame...

For sale in CIS only! Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as "Byron", with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the br...

For sale in CIS only! The mile-deep gorge made by the Blue Nile as it flows out of the highlands of North West Ethiopia into the broad plains of the Sudan is one of the greatest natural features in the world. It remained virtually unexplored until 1...